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at is new in his researches.
in the common eel. Bloch
gives six distinctions all of
which appear to me unessential
& capable of being produced by
the different manner of living
& feeding of the two |same| fish in
fresh & salt water /
Artedi describes
tubes on the head of the
Eel. De Piscibus. He says
He has shewn
by dissection
that the lamprey
are male & female
M. fewer
Pallas says there are no eels
in the Volga , nor in Siberia
The fish of the Volga are
three kinds of Sturgeon Krasnaia Rita
the red salmon, Bielaia sibilya
the white salmon. barbel silurus
la chuppia , trout lamprey , el gobio
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live on the belly, the eggs are too
small to produce young ones in the uterus
& there seems no system for this
The viviferous blenny produce only
300 or 400, & I believe this has
the greatest no of eggs, of any fish of this kind

Marcus ElieserBloch

German physician and naturalist who specialised in the study of fish on which he published a 12 volume work with which Davy was familiar. (presumably in the French translation).

PeterArtedi

Swedish naturalist who specialised in the study of fish.

Peter SimonPallas

Prussian explorer, geologist and botanist, who wrote 'Second Voyage de Pallas, ou Voyages entrpris dans les gouvernmens meridionaux de l'empire de Russie, pendant les annees 1793 et 94'

lamprey

An ancient lineage of jawless fish, characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth.

Pallas

The second asteroid to be discovered, 28th March 1802 by Heinrich Olbers

Gobio

Gobio gobio, or the gudgeon, is a species of fish widely distributed in fresh-water streams and lakes across central and temperate Eurasia.

Blenny

A common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour.

Volga

The longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea.

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Siberia

a vast Russian province encompassing most of Northern Asia, with terrain spanning tundra, coniferous forest and mountain ranges

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Brelaia sibilya

Belaya is one of the common names for Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). 'Belaya' is the Russian word for white.

cheppia

An Italian common name for two species of Alosa (herrings), a type of.